Reply to post: Re: You'll never get me up in one of those things

Paul Allen's six-engined monster plane prepares for space deliveries

itzman

Re: You'll never get me up in one of those things

"a heck of a twist around that central spar,"

The spar is not there to provide torsional stiffness. It is there to provide bending stiffness. In a wing made of spars and ribs the torsional stiffness is massive, provided by the actual stressed skin of the wing.

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